Word: largest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...largest audience that has assembled in Appleton Chapel on any Sun day evening this year listened last evening to Bishop J. H. Vincent, D. D. He took as his text Gen. I:31; "And God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good...
...largest attended hare and hounds run held thus far was given yesterday, with over forty men competing. On account of an oversight of the H. A. A. the trail was laid from the University Press building, where the paper was cut. The hares were J. Manley '93 and D. W. Fenton '95 who laid the trail across several yards in the vicinity of Longfellow Park, down through the brick yards, up towards Tufts College, thence around the Powder House up to the Cambridge water tower. Half way down the hill a profusion of paper signified the break. The men lined...
President Harper of the Chicago University has concluded the purchase of the forty inch lenses made for the University of California, and no time is being lost to complete the erection of the University observatory which is to be the largest in the world. The lenses are in the hands of Alvin G. Clarck of Cambridge who has promised to have them ready in eighteen months. The work of planning the details of the buildings begins at once, and estimates for the mounting of the telescope and equipment of the observatory have been ordered...
...University of Southern California is soon to have the largest telescope in the world; it will be mounted on Mt. Wilson near Los Angeles...
...largest foot-ball scores on record were made: by Harvard against Exeter in 1886, 123-0; by Yale against Wesleyan in 1886, 136-0; and by Princeton against Lafayette...